The Importance of Education in our Life
What is Education? You Probably knew the answer, but for more concise meaning, here is Wikipedia’s suggestion. Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include teaching, training, storytelling, discussion, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, however, learners can also educate themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational.
Over the years we have witnessed the progress of humanity through the things that they learn. Thousands of innovation and exploration through the course of human history has been proved and recorded. And all of these developments came because of the knowledge a person has acquired through education. Anybody who wouldn’t know about education must be living under a rock.
Numerous studies proved the importance of education for human survival. During prehistoric times, education already began in its simplest form. People acquired knowledge by simply imitating other’s actions and speech. The evolution of education continued for thousands of years, from simple learnings to more complicated ones. Each century of our timeline has contributed thousand of discoveries that leads many of us to a progressive world. For instance, the development of writing started way back in 3,500 BC and until today it is still widely practiced all over the world. Some methods of education during ancient times still exist today just like that of ancient India. In ancient Indian education, discussions, and debates were common features.
It’s crystal clear that we have come a very long way from just hunting animals for our food to conveniently buying food in supermarkets. This massive upgrade in our lifestyle would not be possible without the knowledge that we acquire through education. People will hardly survive without education. In today’s modern world if you do not possess any education, be it formal or informal then your life would be in great peril. HelpfulProfessor.com enumerated 11 lifelong effects of lacking education. Fist on the list is Poor health. Primary education is important for learning about personal health. Second, the lack of voice. Undereducated people do not have the skills or confidence to speak up for themselves. The third effect is the shorter lifespan. According to the report, less educated men statistically live between 4 and 14 years less than their well-educated counterparts. Fourth, it’s a poverty trap. Children of poorer people are more likely to be poor themselves. This is often known as the intergenerational poverty trap.
The fifth lifelong effect of lacking education is unemployment. Everywhere in the world, jobs are given out to the most qualified people. Sixth is exploitation. People who have not been educated may have to resort to terrible types of work just to survive. Some may even resort to illegal jobs just to live. The seventh lifelong effect is gender inequality. Women who are less educated tend to be impregnated at an early age.
The eighth effect is that it causes a brake on economic growth. Countries that have a more educated population will have more economic growth over the long term than those with a less educated population. The ninth lifelong effect of lack of education is the inability to make smart political decisions. If too many people in society lack the ability to think critically about the big challenges of the future, we won’t collectively make smart political decisions. Tenth on the list is hardship in raising children. If you lack an education yourself, raising children becomes more difficult. And not just because you’re more likely to be poor. lastly, your job is about to disappear due to automation. Automation is coming. We have already seen many millions of jobs disappear over the past few decades due to the introduction of robots.
Even with the level of education that we have today, there is still a lot of improvements that need to be done for us to keep up with our fast-paced lifestyle. The constant upgrade in our systems, the new inventions, and the innovation of our technology can be so overwhelming that we need to educate ourselves constantly to stay relevant. I agree that sometimes we need a break but education is a lifelong process and it can be achieved not only inside the four corners of the classroom but it can also be done in the outside world where real-world problems exist. Education is inevitable and should be given importance not only in school but also at home. – Karie | Helpline PH
